The venerable FJ&G de Saram was established in 1841 and is one of the country’s oldest firms. It house Sri Lanka’s largest team with 10 partners and over 20 other fee-earners. This full-service firm has first-rate banking and finance, and corporate practices, ...
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The venerable FJ&G de Saram was established in 1841 and is one of the country’s oldest firms. It house Sri Lanka’s largest team with 10 partners and over 20 other fee-earners. This full-service firm has first-rate banking and finance, and corporate practices, with top practitioners Ayomi Aluwihare-Gunawardene, Tudor Jayasuriya, and Udaya Kadurugamuwa leading the teams. The firm services major domestic and international corporates and financial institutions including an impressive array of banks like NDB, Standard Chartered, DFCC, Citibank, State Bank of India, Habib Bank, Deutsche Bank, ICICI Bank, HSBC, and Wachovia. The firm has been busy this year acting on a number of manufacturing sector M&As, and representative clients of its corporate practice include Continental Holdings AG, Global Communications and MAS Capital.
Two highlights for the firm recently were representing Citibank in relation to oil hedging transactions entered into with Ceylon Petroleum, and advising IFC and Sojitz on the sale and purchase of shares in Asia Power valued at US$3.8 million. Additionally, the team served as counsel to People’s Leasing Company on the US$4.5 million acquisition of a majority of shares in a Colombo Stock Exchange-listed finance company.
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